Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: "Son of Saul," "An," "One Floor Below"
A Cannes dispatch on new films from Laszlo Nemes, Naomi Kawase, and Radu Muntean.
Barbara Scharres is the former Director of Programming at the Gene Siskel Film Center, a public program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
In this capacity she was the artistic director for one of the largest cultural exhibition programs of world cinema in North America. She has published articles and criticism in film magazines and journals including American Cinematographer, Film Comment, Chicago Reader, Variety, and the Chicago Sun-Times, and has contributed to books including Hong Kong Babylon, edited by Fred Dannen.
Scharres was named a "Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts" by the Chicago Tribune three times, in 1989, 1991, and 1999. In 2006, the French government awarded her one of its highest honors by designating her a Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her role in advancing French culture through cinema.
A Cannes dispatch on new films from Laszlo Nemes, Naomi Kawase, and Radu Muntean.
A dispatch from Cannes on the new films by Emmanuelle Bercot, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Matteo Garrone.
A curtain raiser for the 2015 iteration of the Cannes Film Festival.
The annual presentation of the 2014 Palme de Whiskers was a star-studded affair this year.
The Competition section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival ends with Olivier Assayas' "Clouds of Sils Maria" with Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloe Grace Moretz.
Day nine of the Cannes Film Festival finds our reporter covering Leviathan and Asia Argento's Misunderstood.
A Cannes reporter sees little value in "Jimmy's Hall," the latest drama from Ken Loach.
Barbara Scharres is back with a Cannes report on the premiere of Jean-Luc Godard's 3D "Goodbye to Language."
Our Cannes reporter sees critical icebergs ahead for Michel Hazanavicius' "The Search."
A day-seven report from Cannes on Wim Wenders' The Salt of the Earth and Andre Techine's In the Name of My Daughter.